The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-12
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Happenings in the Northwestern
States and Territories.
IOWA.


States and Territories.
IOWA.
sOld Zion," the rst brick Methodist
church built in Iowa, located at Burlington,
has recently been transformed into
theater.
The law granting State certificates of in
corporation went into effect July /, 1886.
and since that time 567 certificates fave
been granted to State and 1873 to foreign
s1ncorporators.
A. J. Graham, editor of the Red Oak In
dependent, was found dead in his Office the
other evening. A bottle labeled tincture
of aconite was near. He bought the poison
In the morning, telling the druggist he
wanted it for a friend in the country for
medicine. Temporary insanity was the
cause.
The harness and saddlery house of Muel-
Ter & Nepper, in Sioux City, made an assign
ment the other day. Liabilities $1l, 900;
assets, 500, 1000
The pharmaceutical certificate of L. J. An
derson, a druggist at Humboldt, was revoked
recently because, during two months alb
sence in Chicago, his store was run by an
unregistered young man. Anderson can
not engage in the drug business in Iowa
again.
The State Supreme Court has decided
thut the law reorganlz1ng the granu tury
OF the State is constitu tional
John Danny, at one time a well-to-do
citizen Of LIE Mars, but for the past two
years an inmate of the Plymouth County
Poor-house, went to bed q few nights ago
with lighted pipe TIE bed-clothes
caught FIRE, and being feeble he was unable
to help himself and was burned to death.
The German-American Savings Bank at
Burlington has increased it's capital stock
from 500, 900 to 100000 49,:
There are 297 Presbyterian Sunday
schools in the State, with an enrolment of
80, SS7 members ....
The appoin tnent is announced of George
W. Ogilvie to be superintendent of the Des
Moines & Northwestern railroad, known as
the Fonda line, and L. F. Martin to be SUI
perintendent of the St Louis, D IS Moines &
Northern, known as the Boone line.
Miss Martha Fa:rer, white girl, whose
parents move in good society, in Mason
City, eloped few days ego with Thomas
Jefferson, colored jockey. Tie young
Woman's family had renounced her.
Farmers near canning factories have real
lied twenty dollars per acre this year for
the sweet corn they raised
ILLINOIS.
The following rates of Stlte tax for ex-
tension against the equalized assessment of
all property in Illinois for the year 1887
have been determined upon: For general
State purposes, three and nine tenths mills
on each dollar; for State school purposes,
one and four-tenths mil on each dollar;
aggregating five and three -tenths mills on
each dollar.
Governor Ross,,of New Mexico, has re-
moved the cattle quarantine restrictions
from Illinois, except Cook County
The Soldiers Home at Quincy has ad-
mltted 524 inmates, of whom 1862 are
natives and 262 foreigners. The foreign
ers are divided as follows: Germany, 40:
Ireland, 95; England, IL, and Scotland, 10.
Two hundred and fifty-s:x are marie or
have living children; 81 are widowers
without children and 1877 are single The
trades and PROFESSIONS number 63, and
there are 151 farmers and 1872 laborers
A number of farmers in Pope County who
have occupied their lands for quarter OF a
century were ousted few days ago by
eiectment suits brought by nonresident
claimants. 1.E.- --.s...- .-.....
An alleged incendiary fire destroyed thu
four ice houses of the Moline Ice Company
late the other evening. Loss, 50, 500; no
insurance.
Edgar Fitzgerald a fifteen year-old son
of j. J. Fitzgerald, of Jefferson County, was
thrown from horse and almost instantly
killed the other afternoon
J. E Eddy, proprietor of the City Hotel at
Geneseo, shot himself dead a few days ago.
He was nearly fifty years old and leaves
wife and family Financial troubles were
said to have been the cause of his act
George Wolford, of Georgetown, who had
been shamefully abusing and maitreating
his wife, was taken out by a party of neigh
bors the other night, tied to tree and
given thorough whipping He was then
turned over to the authorities and placed
in Jail. ~
William Gaffney and Samuel Carnahan,
OF Paris, were killed the other day by the
caving in OF gravel bank.
William Wrightman, sixty years of age,
died from neglect and starvation in Chicago
a few nights ago.
Mrs schnaubelt, mother-in-Iaw of An
archist Schwab and mother of Rudolph
schnaubelt, the supposed mb-thrower
reached Chicago the other day. She came
alone from Germany.
WISCONSIN.
In the redistricting of the State the Leg
jslature made one hundred and one assem-
bly, districts, whereas the consttu uion of
Wisconsin says there shall not be to
exceed one hundred This fact ! was
not discovered until the Governor had
signed the law and the statesmen had
departed for Their homes The cues lion
now Is whether it will be necessary to call a
special session of the Legislature, weed out
the obnoxious district and have the thing
legal
Governor Rusk has Issued formal order
for the cleaning out of the immoral dens at
Hurley, and promised the local authorities
ali the assistance needed
Awen-dressed young man named Frank
Novotny recently swindled number OF
his friends at La Crosse. He robbed his
landlord and wheedled his best girl out OF
5000
Blackhawk Tribe No. 2, Order Of Red
Men, was organized at Beloit few even
ings ago, and the following officers We're
chosen: Prophet, E. D. Scott; Great sachem,
D. A. Howell; Sensior Sycamore, A l. How
ard.